Occupiers In Oakland Out Of Control, Threatening News Crews; Rat Infested Tent City

KGO reporter Amy Hollyfield reports that the protesters inhabiting the public square used by the Occupy Oakland protest threatened her and her news crew if they attempted to enter the rat-infested tent city. "They were telling us if we tried to take our cameras into the plaza and into the camp area they would take our cameras and break them."

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In another incident involving the Occupy Oakland protesters turning their hostility on the local reporters covering the demonstrations, a large dog in the tent city was sicked on a reporter. The reporter is Ken Pritchet from KNTV and he came a fraction of an inch from receiving very serious wounds.

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In another report from the Occupy Oakland tent city early this morning, KTVU’s Claudine Wong was verbally abused and intimidated on live television, in a tense scene witnessed by viewers throughout the Bay Area.

Other local morning news reports from three of the major Bay Area stations suggested that the Occupy Oakland tent city had descended into rat-infested squalor with complaints of vandalism, public urination, sexual harassment, and sex in public.

More about the attracting rats, alcohol and illegal drug use and talk from officials about shutting down the Oakland Occupy tent city, via Mercury News.